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As a french programmer, since I'm about 12, and expatriate for about 20 years, I learned long ago that: 1) I needed a qwerty keyboard do I don't develop RSI tr
by buserror 11y ago
As a french programmer, since I'm about 12, and expatriate for about 20 years, I learned long ago that:
1) I needed a qwerty keyboard do I don't develop RSI trying to type braces on a french one.
2) I also decided that getting RSI trying to type the accents on a qwerty keyboard was silly.
I thus type french without any accents at all. Sometime the result is funny :-)
- athenot 11y agoSimilar situation here but I don't have any issue typing all the accents in French on a qwerty keyboard. It's no harder than using proper capitalization. When I made the switch, it was when I was doing a lot of Perl and I found the French keyboard was easier on the hands than the US one, as the sigils & most operators didn't require any modifier key to be typed—though brackets were another story.
- rodelrod 11y agoMy (slightly customized) Portuguese layout gives me both every accent you need in French and easily accessible braces. The French AZERTY with the inverted number row may be too screwed up for any hope of rescue, though ;)